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We look at media comment on British Prime Minister David Cameron’s commitment to Turkish membership of the EU. We also look at comment on the upcoming US review of tax subsidies for renewable energy.

This week, we look at media comment on the new US financial regulation bill, as well as on the August withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

The question of how to protect the public from mismanagement continues to dominate the headlines. This week we look at comment on a German plan to deal with countries that are unable to pay back their debts. We also look at a US government attempt to stop deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

We look at media comment on the behaviour of the French team in the World Cup, the UK government’s emergency budget, and General Stanley McChrystal's controversial interview in Rolling Stone magazine. His withering comments led to his dismissal this week as commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

The disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and elections in Britain don’t seem to have much in common. But the British company BP is responsible for the oil spill and relations between the US and Britain are likely to become even cooler under a new government. Here’s what the business press has to say.

Most restaurant servers need to earn good tips to survive. But then again, shouldn't all  employers pay their staff a real wage, and not expect customers to make up the difference? Read two opinions on this topic. 

Sometimes, you read a news story that is just too good to be true. Not because the news is positive or the story has a happy ending, but because it is so unbelievable that nobody would dare to make it up.

With Germany’s Oscar Lafontaine, head of Die Linke, deciding to leave politics, media this week have focused on the state of the political left both in Germany and Europe. We also look at comment on how US health-care reform could be affected by the victory of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

The media’s attention this week is focused not only on Haiti’s disastrous earthquake, which has flattened Port-au-Prince and killed tens of thousands of people, but also on what needs to be done when the rescue work is over.